Response to Current Air Quality Changes in Small and Large Areas
A special issue of Environments (ISSN 2076-3298).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 13373
Special Issue Editors
Interests: atmospheric pollution; bryophytes; ecotoxicology; environmental monitoring
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Interests: material-atmosphere interactions; effects of different environments (marine, urban and industrial) on the conservation state of built and cultural heritage; damage evaluation and risk assessment
2. Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña), Spain
Interests: environmental sciences and monitoring; stone; cultural heritage resources; biofilm at the stone/air interface; bioreceptivity and the development of innovative environmental technologies aimed at managing; assessing and mitigating natural and human impacts on built heritage and new build in the context of global change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Good environmental health leads to good human health, which is why air quality is a key environmental issue in the current scientific research. At present, social concern is great, and a significant effort is being made to improve air quality through legislation for emissions reduction. In addition to the negative effects on human health, air quality changes are responsible for different responses of the urban fabric, such as modifications of the biology and weathering of building materials (including soiling and discoloration).
This Special Issue invites contributions from researchers across the globe to suggest, discuss, and address some effects associated with air quality changes in different areas at the municipal, regional, state, national, and global levels.
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Green policies related to air quality
- Record changes in air quality due to the COVID-19 crisis
- Record changes in air quality due to global change
- Current air quality changes in the context of smart cities
- Patterns and drivers on built structures to the understanding of air quality change
Dr. Zulema Varela Río
Dr. Hector Morillas
Dr. Patricia Sanmartín
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Air pollution
- Bioindicators
- Biomonitoring
- Building maintenance
- Cultural heritage
- Green policies
- Records
- Smart cities
- Temporal trends
- Urban fabric
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